“I remember the first case in US history of a conviction for marital rape, sometime in the 70’s, I think.”
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Yes, and the accused man’s last name was “Rideout” which has always struck me as somehow rather ironic. There was a movie made about it starring Mickey Rourke as John Rideout. The movie came out in 1980.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081402/
And Linda Hamilton of the ‘Terminator’ movies as the Mrs.